MADRID (Reuters) – At least two hundreds of immigrants went through in the early hours of Monday the border fence between Morocco and Ceuta, causing that 32 of them were injured, said Monday the Spanish Government.
A group of about 220 immigrants entered early into the Spanish territory from Morocco after forcing two access gates to the fence of the Spanish enclave in north Africa.
“Showing a hostile attitude and violent and many of them armed with sticks, the immigrants attacked their passage to the agents tried to prevent the entry,” he said in a statement the government delegation in Ceuta.
Three civil guards had to be treated for wounds, added the press release. All immigrants injured were later discharged from the hospital.
The number of immigrants who agreed to Spain in this endeavour could increase, as some of them fled to mountainous areas, recognized by the Spanish authorities in the statement.
The entry of irregular immigrants to the autonomous Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla increased by 55 per cent in 2015 compared to the previous year, while millions of people escape hunger, war or poverty in Africa and the middle East to Europe, which is experiencing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War.
Spain, which reinforced the fences of Ceuta and Melilla in the mid of the last decade when it was surpassed by the number of people trying to enter, has also introduced changes to the law, as a controversial law allowing the Civil Guard to refuse the entry of immigrants through the fence and to return them to the moroccan side.
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